User:Rgdboer

Brief:

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This user is a native speaker of the English language.

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Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

This user learnt how to use all his fingers for typewriting.

This user is a scientist.

Wikibooks has a User Page for Rgdboer

This user has been editing Wikipedia for over fifteen years.


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When a man writes to the world, he summons up all his reasons and deliberations to assist him; he searches, meditates, is industrious, and likely consults with his judicious friends; after all which done he takes himself to be informed in what he writes as well as any that writ before him.
— John Milton (1644), Areopagitica

My great-grandparents lived in the land of

adolescent I read Hans Kmoch's Pawn Power in Chess. The YMCA offered swimming lessons in its pool, a summer camp, and a room for weekly meetings of the city chess club

.

I was amazed that my

One Two Three...Infinity

opened the cosmos.

I put some of my physical energy into learning to ride a

junior high school there was a science fair in which I competed with a problem in combinatorics. The creative experience of innovative mathematics was rewarding enough without award. (Originality is expected in Wikibooks but not allowed in Wikipedia. See for example b:Geometry/Unified Angles or works that have been archived by Wayback Machine

: Complementary numerals, Corner flow and Common ground, and Adventures in 9-space.)

After junior high school I started studying through the summers, taking a courses in

academia, so that was my career goal. Advisors told me to get three academic degrees and to learn to read French, German and Russian mathematics

.

University

Sheepskins

This user has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics with a minor in Philosophy.

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This user has a Master of Science degree.

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This user is a mathematician.

First year sciences were

measure theory with John L. Kelley. But graduate students were not deferred from the Vietnam War so I applied for recognition as a conscientious objector but was turned down. It seemed that all the learning was going for nought while the Selective Service System

provided young men for induction into the Army. In

carnivorism

) was unnecessary for human vitality. On

California primary

; the tragic outcome on election day was a real blow and has discouraged me from politics since.

Frustrated in my course of study, a broader perspective was sought in reading

Anchorage I refused a induction Army second time, and when threatened with prosecution left the country. Some years later President Jimmy Carter

granted amnesty for refusal of induction.

Pierre Trudeau was Prime minister when I landed in Canada, which was then a major contributor to United Nations operations in peacekeeping. For science policy, reference is made to Francis Bacon in Canada rather than to Benjamin Franklin.

It was my good fortune to hear F.A. Kaempffer, author of Concepts in Quantum Mechanics (1965) and Elements of Physics (1967), speak in

American Mathematical Monthly (volume 85, foot of page 778), "The geometry is that of a homography transformation on the category of projective spaces with two homogeneous coordinates taken from an arbitrary associative ring with 1. The development of these geometries is shown to be relevant to the study of Maxwell's equations." As a "Recent book", it was noted by IEEE Spectrum

(page 74, February 1979).

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Residence

This user is a Wikipedian in British Columbia.

This user has visited 11 of the 10 provinces and 3 territories of Canada.

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This user has a page on Wikiversity.

δὤς μοὶ πα στῶ και ταν γαν κινασω

There were some classroom teaching opportunities in

binary arithmetic and Boolean algebra were in my curriculum. In 1987 I wrote a letter to American Journal of Physics (56:296) : "An Also Known As List for Perplex Numbers", which listed some references for split-complex numbers

.

At last I became a

eggs, milk, and meat, I choose only the middle one, like Elmer McCollum

.

One day I noticed that if the i, j, and k in the

coquaternions in the 1853 biquaternions that William Rowan Hamilton

had developed.

The waters of the

Florianopolis and canals in Tigre Partido. In the Pacific the shores of Chiloé Island, Waiheke Island, and the Marlborough Sounds were viewed and visited. Such explorations were also in the wake of Pytheas

, who sought amber, but before the new millennium.

Returning to the quest for my own amber, new tools had been laid out by the digital revolution. The article "Split-complex Numbers" was posted including a longer list of

quadrature

of hyperbola xy=1.

I continue to be a bibliophile, enjoying especially

search engines

. Scientists of age please note: In writing a biography for Wikipedia, the existence of autobiographical notes makes a significant difference. For examples,

Willard Quine

give an impression of perpetual movement. Too many scientists leave no trace but their academic output in books, articles, or media releases. Recollecting some of the turbulence encountered in academic life may be a meaningful experience.

reliable sources

that may be linked for encyclopedia users to read online.

For students interested in tools, beyond real numbers ℝ and complex numbers ℂ, that can structure mathematical models, the text Associative Composition Algebra is now available at Wikibooks.